From: starchild-AT-bc.sympatico.ca
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:14:24 -0700
Subject: Re: for malgosia


bonnie a. beal wrote:
> 
> i think the middle stanza of this poem summarizes what i am trying to say
> more eloquently than i can say it.
> 
> "a funny guy",charles bukowski
> 
> Schopenhauer couldn't abide the masses,
> they drove him mad
> but he was able to say,
> "at least,I am not them."
> and this consoled him to some
> extent
> and i think one of his most humorous writings
> was when he expostulated against some man who
> uselessly cracked his whip
> over his horse
> completely destroying a thought process
> Arthur was involved
> in.
> 
> but the man with the whip was a part of the
> whole
> no matter how seemingly useless and
> stupid
> and once great thoughts
> often with time
> become useless and
> stupid.
> 
> but Schopenhauer's rage was so
> beautiful
> so well placed that i laughed
> out loud
> then
> put him down
> next to Nietzsche
> who was also
> all too
> human.
> 
> (from "You get so alone at times that it just makes sense"
> 
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As a point of interest perhaps:
	On January 3, 1889, in the Piazza Carlo Alberto, Nietzsche saw 
a coachman beating {whipping] his horse. He rushed to protect it and 
then collapsed. This was the beginning of his madness and subsequent 
fatal illness. {Schopenhaur referred to him as the 'young nietzsche'
on occasion.
	Schopenhaurs tirade against horsewhipping and horsewhipping
being the stimulus to Nietzsche's going down. Amor fati?

Starchild


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